Description

Learn about the Concurrency Analysis Platform (CAP) from Microsoft Research and how it enables various concurrency bug-finding tools. See a demo of CHESS, a tool built on CAP for finding and reproducing Heisenbugs. Also hear about future tools from Microsoft
Research, including a lightweight data-race detection engine and a tool for finding memory-model errors.

Thomas Ball

Thomas Ball is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research where he manages the Software Reliability Research group (http://research.microsoft.com/srr/). Tom has been at Microsoft Research since 1999. He is one of the originators of
the SLAM project, a software model checking engine for C that forms the basis of the Static Driver Verifier tool, made freely available by Microsoft for finding defects in device drivers. Tom's interests range from program analysis, model checking, testing
and automated theorem proving to the problems of defining and measuring software quality.

Madan Musuvathi

Madan Musuvathi is a Researcher at Microsoft Research and is interested in building program analysis tools to improve the productivity of developers and testers. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2004.

On behalf of the CHESS team, I am very glad to announce that CHESS is available for download at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/cc950526.aspx. CHESS is a tool from Microsoft Research for finding and reproducing concurrency errors. Please download the bits and let us know what
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